Alan C. Mack
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They're geographically placed so that you have redundancy and battle damage can be kept to a minimum.
In this case, it got it.
It was like a shotgun blast.
Had them all?
All three of them gone.
So the cockpit...
of an MH47E model, an Echo, is four television screens or multifunction displays, MFDs.
And all of the information for the flight, the engine operations, the rotor RPM, all the things that are important are displayed on that.
And the guns, we have these things called mini guns.
It's a six-barreled electric Gatling gun.
That's our self-defense.
Those are AC-powered.
They run off the generators.
They shoot 4,000 rounds a minute.
So, I mean, they're deadly when they work.
But with no electricity...
They don't.
They don't work.
Now, since then, we've put them on batteries instead of the aircraft power.
But anyway, so now I'm sitting in the cockpit, and it's nighttime.